On 29/12/15 03:38, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 09:20:05AM -0500, Mitt Green wrote:
>> Adam Borowski wrote:
>>
>>> Note that xfce4 in unstable doesn't support alsa anymore as sound platform
>>> agnostic xfce4-mixer has been dropped. The replacement,
>>> xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, is pulseaudio only.
>>
>> I reckon it haven't really dropped yet, there is 4.11 version in
>> Experimental, one day it may become a part of
>> Sid again.
>
> Not really, it's gone upstream:
> http://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1425081600
>
> # Due to gstreamer1.0 having dropped the mixer-interface entirely, and
> # xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed relying on this interface with
> # gstreamer0.10, our mixer application and volume daemon cannot be ported to
> # 1.0 and are consequently not maintained anymore.
>
Why are they using gstreamer in the first place? Why not use the alsa
api's?

Perhaps we should port it to the alsa api and push it back upstream.

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